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August 21st, 2007
Battle of Leipzig "Light":
Having toyed around with some experimental rules for NB, we thought to test them out one Saturday Afternoon. Each side took about 730 points (excluding costs for Generals) from the Leipzig OB. Each side had to take full Corps to prevent "cherry picking" specialist units. The main purpose was to test out 2 new rules: "Road March Column" and "Flank March". Here's a high level Brief on both rules:
1) Road March Column: If a unit starts on the road in March Column and stays on the road and in that formation the entire move, then it may Force March (x2 speed) with no need to roll for stragglers).
2) Flank March: A take off on Liars Reserve. Each General can decide to hold "x" formations off board to enter at a later time and location noted before deployment. The formation cannot enter before a certain turn and that turn is determined on where the formation wants to enter. For example, if the French want to enter on the Deep Flank of the allies, it will take them much longer than to do a shallow flank. 1-2 turns before the formation is scheduled to enter, the player rolls and consults a chart to see if his formation will come in. Continue doing this until the formation rolls successfully. The idea was to give the players a chance to do something somewhat surprising but at a risk of not having the unit come on at all if its a very deep flank march.
The game had 5 towns each worth 30 VPs. Both forces entered the table from opposite ends.
Battle of Leipzig "Light":
Having toyed around with some experimental rules for NB, we thought to test them out one Saturday Afternoon. Each side took about 730 points (excluding costs for Generals) from the Leipzig OB. Each side had to take full Corps to prevent "cherry picking" specialist units. The main purpose was to test out 2 new rules: "Road March Column" and "Flank March". Here's a high level Brief on both rules:
1) Road March Column: If a unit starts on the road in March Column and stays on the road and in that formation the entire move, then it may Force March (x2 speed) with no need to roll for stragglers).
2) Flank March: A take off on Liars Reserve. Each General can decide to hold "x" formations off board to enter at a later time and location noted before deployment. The formation cannot enter before a certain turn and that turn is determined on where the formation wants to enter. For example, if the French want to enter on the Deep Flank of the allies, it will take them much longer than to do a shallow flank. 1-2 turns before the formation is scheduled to enter, the player rolls and consults a chart to see if his formation will come in. Continue doing this until the formation rolls successfully. The idea was to give the players a chance to do something somewhat surprising but at a risk of not having the unit come on at all if its a very deep flank march.
The game had 5 towns each worth 30 VPs. Both forces entered the table from opposite ends.
[photogallery/photo11021/photogallery/photo11021/real.htm]At this point, it was getting late and all the players had an early morning the next day. We talked through what we thought would happen and called it a night. The consensus was that the French were not going to be able to take the two towns in the River valley (located on the Allied Right) and were going to pull back their forces already there. The center attack had been halted, but the French still had sufficient forces to at least harass the center and perhaps put up one more strong attack. The allied left was in the process to being overrun. With Old Guard and high quality cannon and cavalry, the most the Russians would be able to do was to delay. There were some Prussians (one entire division held in reserve) that could help stem the tide. It would truly be a delaying battle to stop the French from making significant progress towards the Rear and Center towns. The allied had a small Russian Grenadier Corps (2 divisions totaling 4 Brigades) scheduled to come in on the French deep flank near their rear held town. My hopes were that even if I lost one of the two towns already held in my Rear or Center, the Flank Reserve Corps could take the French held town and thus offset the points lost to the Guard attack. Its a shame we couldn't finish as I think it would have been very interesting. Probably not a very well balanced scenario as I was able to grab most of the key locations before the French since I went first. Will have to work on that. We decided that we liked the March Column rule but would have to further discuss the Flank Reserve rule.
At this point, it was getting late and all the players had an early morning the next day. We talked through what we thought would happen and called it a night. The consensus was that the French were not going to be able to take the two towns in the River valley (located on the Allied Right) and were going to pull back their forces already there. The center attack had been halted, but the French still had sufficient forces to at least harass the center and perhaps put up one more strong attack. The allied left was in the process to being overrun. With Old Guard and high quality cannon and cavalry, the most the Russians would be able to do was to delay. There were some Prussians (one entire division held in reserve) that could help stem the tide. It would truly be a delaying battle to stop the French from making significant progress towards the Rear and Center towns. The allied had a small Russian Grenadier Corps (2 divisions totaling 4 Brigades) scheduled to come in on the French deep flank near their rear held town. My hopes were that even if I lost one of the two towns already held in my Rear or Center, the Flank Reserve Corps could take the French held town and thus offset the points lost to the Guard attack. Its a shame we couldn't finish as I think it would have been very interesting. Probably not a very well balanced scenario as I was able to grab most of the key locations before the French since I went first. Will have to work on that. We decided that we liked the March Column rule but would have to further discuss the Flank Reserve rule.